The Southern-Approved Way to Make Fried Okra: 'Exactly How My Georgia Mama Did It!' originally appeared on Parade. If there’s one veggie I’ll never get tired of, it’s okra. Growing up in Louisiana, I ...

Our granddaughter Maggie just got home from college one weekend a while back with a list of Southern comfort foods she’d been craving! Right at the top? Fried okra, green beans, potato soup, and ...

No diss to popcorn or fries, but fried okra is summer’s greatest guilty pleasure. In the garden, sturdy, drought-resistant okra with its pale-yellow hibiscus-like flowers soars and spits out a steady ...

Once you start picking okra, you have to keep up because it grows fast. Skip a day and the pods may already be too big and tough for cooking purposes. If you pick them at just the right time, when ...

Okra’s peculiar taste and texture became a perfect fit for Southern dishes, especially those cooked low and slow. Whether sliced and fried, stewed into gumbo or tossed in cornmeal, okra became an ...

Sophomore efforts are a tricky business, especially if you’re trying to make lightning strike twice. So when word got out early last year that the team behind Arcadia’s beloved Crudo was launching a ...

Southern cooks and gardeners quickly adopted okra into their own dishes, blending it with other influences, particularly from Native American, French and Spanish cuisines. Okra’s peculiar taste and ...